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Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins

April 7, 2022 By Dawn 7 Comments

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Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins moist muffins with a creamy cream cheese center. These easy-to-make muffins are great to wake up to in the morning.

A muffin cut in half on a white plate.

Muffins are one of those things that I love to have around for a quick breakfast or afternoon snack. The strawberries and the cream cheese make these muffins extra special. The combination is always a winner.

This recipe is easy to make, there are a couple of extra steps, but you won’t mind the extra steps when you take your first bite. The muffins turn out light and fluffy. You will be surprised how creamy the cream cheese filling stays in the center.

Looking down at a bowl full of strawberry muffins.

Helpful Tips:

  • Wash and dry the strawberries, then remove the green tops. Chop the strawberries into small pieces. The smaller pieces will help the fruit from sinking to the bottom of the muffins.
  • Make sure that the cream cheese is at room temperature. This will help to combine the ingredients and make a creamier filling.
  • Use an electric mixer to mix the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. It will make it easier to combine the ingredients.
  • When combining the ingredients for the batter, use a spatula to fold the ingredients and make sure not to overwork the batter.
  • Prepare a 12 cup tin for this recipe. If you have batter left after filling the 12 cups and don’t have another muffin tin, bake the first muffins, then bake the remaining batter.
  • With the cream cheese filling it is best to store these in the refrigerator. They will keep for 3 to 4 days.
  • If you want to keep the muffins for a longer time, I would recommend that you freeze them in an airtight container.

What happens if you overmixed?

The mixing for the muffin batter should be kept to a minimum. Light stirring for about 20 seconds should do the trick. Do not worry if there are a few lumps, that is a good thing. If you overmix the batter the gluten in the flour will start to develop and toughen it. This will produce muffins that are coarse and full of tunnels.

Steps for making Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins

Step one

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Grease the muffin tins or line them with paper liners.

Cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in a mixing bowl.
Cream cheese filling in a mixing bowl.

Step two

Cream together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Set aside while the batter is made.

Step three

Combine the flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

Melted butter, milk and egg beaten together in a bowl.

Step four

Combine the milk, butter, egg, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and mix together. Fold in the strawberries

The strawberries are folded in the batter.

Step five

Fill the muffin tins by adding the muffin batter, then some cream cheese filling, then topping with additional batter.

Unbaked muffins in muffin tins.
Baked strawberry muffins in muffin tins.

Step six

Bake the muffins in the preheated oven until lightly browned.

Check out these additional muffin recipes:

  • Peach Muffins
  • Mini Donut Muffins
  • Best Ever Blueberry Muffins
  • Blueberry Lemon Cream Cheese Muffins
A side view of a muffin on a white plate with a plaid napkin.

If you make these Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins I would love to hear about it! Please leave me a comment and a rating.

A muffin cut in half on a white plate.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins

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Course: Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Strawberry cream cheese muffins, Strawberry and cream cheese muffins
Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 18 minutes minutes
Servings: 14 muffins
Calories: 201kcal
Author: Dawn

Ingredients

Cream cheese mixture

  • 4 ounces cream cheese
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Muffins

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter melted
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup strawberries chopped in small pieces

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Grease or Line muffin tins with paper liners.

Cream cheese

  • Combine the cream cheese, 1/3 cup sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in a medium mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until well combined and smooth. Set aside.

Muffins

  • Combine the flour, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
  • In another bowl combine the milk, melted butter, egg, and vanilla, whisk together.
  • Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and fold together until combined. Do not over mix.
  • Add the chopped strawberries and fold them in.
  • Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the muffin mixture in the prepared muffin tins
  • Top with about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the cream cheese filling. Spoon about another tablespoon over top of the cream cheese filling. Spread over the cream cheese filling. The tins should be 2/3 to 3/4 full.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 18 minutes or until the edges of the muffins start to brown and the muffin spring when you lightly touch them.

Notes

  1. Wash, dry, and remove the tops of the strawberries. Chop them into small pieces. This will help so that they don’t sink to the bottom of the muffins.
  2. Don’t overmix the batter. 
  3. Beat the cream cheese filling with an electric mixer for a smoother filling. 
  4. The muffins can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 3 months.
 
 
 
 
Nutrition information is an estimate and may vary with the brands of ingredients used.

Nutrition

Calories: 201kcal | Carbohydrates: 28.7g | Protein: 2.8g | Fat: 8.7g | Saturated Fat: 5.4g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 144mg | Potassium: 117mg | Fiber: 0.6g | Sugar: 16g | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 1mg

This recipe was originally published on February 19, 2013. It has been updated with new content and pictures on April 7, 2022.

 

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  1. Pam

    February 19, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    I bet the cream cheese made these muffins tangy, moist, and extra delicious.

    Reply
  2. Michele Marriott

    February 19, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    Yum! I love strawberries. They’re my favorite! I’ll have to save this recipe for a month or so…when strawberries start showing up at the market!

    Reply
  3. Reeni Pisano

    February 20, 2013 at 1:46 am

    Delectable! Cream cheese and strawberries were made for each other!

    Reply
  4. Juliana

    February 20, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    Great looking muffins…like the combination of strawberries and cream cheese…yum!
    Enjoy the rest of your week my dear 🙂

    Reply
  5. Kitchen Riffs

    February 20, 2013 at 11:56 pm

    Just recently we’ve been seeing pretty good strawberries in the market. They’d be perfect in this. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a strawberry muffin, and definitely not one with cream cheese. Love that flavor combo! Good stuff – thanks.

    Reply
  6. angiesrecipes

    April 8, 2022 at 1:04 am

    So soft and tender…nice to enjoy as breakfast or afternoon snack!

    Reply
  7. John / Kitchen Riffs

    April 12, 2022 at 5:45 pm

    Love cream cheese. And strawberries, of course. And I’ll never say no to muffins! Such a neat dish — thanks.

    Reply

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Updated on April 7, 2022